Decoding sound source location and separation using neural population activity patterns

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 15837-15847

  Day, Mitchell L ^a,b   Delgutte, Bertrand ^a,b,c  

^a Eaton Peabody Laboratory   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; NEURONS; RABBITS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84884959074     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2034-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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